Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex walked towards the area where the giant octopus had landed.

He didn't want to miss out on any potential rewards the hedgehog had for him.

While Alex was walking to that place, he looked at his left arm.

His left arm was no longer frozen, and it actually felt a bit hot. Sadly, his left arm was still severely injured. The freezing of organic material completely destroyed its structure, severing veins, and many other things.

Alex's left arm hadn't been in pain while it had been frozen, but as soon as it had thawed, Alex felt searing pain coming from it.

Alex couldn't really move it much, but he could still experiment with it.

The ethereal spire had entered Alex's left arm, and it remained there. He had already accidentally shot some cold air out of his left arm earlier, and Alex wanted to know how that worked.

Alex was already familiar with how it felt to move Mana, and he willed for the cold Mana in his left arm to explode.

SSSHH!

A blast of cold air left Alex's left arm. Since his left arm was still limply hanging around, the cold hit part of Alex's left leg and the ground.

The ice below Alex's left arm grew by a bit, and the coat on Alex's left leg completely froze.

However, Alex was too busy with something else.

As soon as Alex had willed the Ice Mana to explode, his arm started to burn. Well, it wasn't burning literally, but it felt like it was burning.

Alex quickly ran to one of the spots with destroyed ice. The octopus had destroyed a huge part of the lake when it had surfaced.

SSSSSS!

Alex put his arm directly into the icy water and gritted his teeth. The sound of something hot touching cold water could be heard as soon as Alex's arm hit the water.

'Fuck! That's so hot!' Alex thought. 'Are you serious?! You have Mana, and you follow the Laws of Thermodynamics?! You want to make stuff cold, so you have to make other stuff hot?! Why can't you just do something magical?!'

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out and moved it through the air for a bit.

His arm had received several burns.

However, it was coated with a thin coating of ice now.

His arm definitely felt colder than before.

'My arm is colder than before. So, let's try again!'

SSSHH!

Another blast of cold air, and Alex immediately dipped his arm into the cold water again.

'It's not as hot as previously, but it still feels like I touched a hot plate or something,' Alex concluded.

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out again.

'I wonder, can I use less?'

the Mana but also made a bit of

SSSH!

left Alex's left arm again, and

this time, Alex's

was just uncomfortably hot, the temperature that would

in exchange, the cold air that left Alex's left arm wasn't as cold as in the

everything he had witnessed. 'So, my arm heats up proportionally to how cold the air is. I'm not sure, but I think the amount of air leaving my arm is the same as the weight of my

to test

his left arm with his right arm and pointed it

a tiny, little bit,' Alex

SSSSSHH!

the storm coming out of the arm. However, since he had only used a little bit, Alex's

icicles had formed

icicles off his face and looked at his

probably only heated up by a single degree. Yet, the

as a reference when cooling something, not the

right now, and if my arm were 20°C hot, and if I unleashed

as a complicated expression

desert that's 50°C and I did the same thing, my arm

different,' Alex thought as he looked around. 'Sure, the creatures living in such a cold environment have a great cold resistance, but that's only true to

in a 50°C hot desert wouldn't mind a blast of 30°C hot air. However, a beast living in a -40°C cold

I could run around with a 5°C cold arm without issues. It would simply feel very dull, numbs, and awkward. However, I could

them with like 60°C or something. Sure, my arm would get severe burns

Alex scratched his chin.

some uses for this ability in a fight. My sword is one-handed anyway, leaving me with a

and he finally came

a tree and saw an area

trees were all destroyed, and many gigantic needles poked out of the unmoving

hedgehog was calmly munching on the octopus,

to one of the tentacles and

the octopus, and just its width was at least three

before the fleshy wall of an

probably fifty meters long, which

onto the tentacle and

to the spot where the

eating, but after some seconds, it noticed

its head to Alex and sniffed several

became a

it was currently munching on the creator and actual owner

similar

He hoped not!

pulled its head back

looked at

back at

the hedgehog walked to the tentacle

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

a minute of biting, the hedgehog had

BANG!

tentacle a couple of meters into the distance with a kick from